Language for the Fluid, Multiple, Unified Self

Autores/as

  • Amira Hanafi Coastal Carolina University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_11-1_2

Palabras clave:

nonviolent language, mixed heritance, meaning-making process

Resumen

This is the text of a keynote address delivered online at the 2023 Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change hosted by the Universidade de Coimbra and held at different venues in Coimbra, Portugal and online from 12 to 15 July 2023. This talk is about how I am using my artistic practice to look for nonviolent language. It might be more accurate to say “create” nonviolent language, because I think it’s a practice. I’m trying to create situations in which people have access to use language in new ways, to create their own meanings, and to have others hear them. In this talk, I’ll share some of what I’m working on, as well as past projects. I’ll give some background to my artistic research, suggest a few characteristics that I imagine for nonviolent language, and present different projects that I’m using to investigate these characteristics.

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Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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Publicado

2025-04-28

Cómo citar

Hanafi, Amira. 2025. «Language for the Fluid, Multiple, Unified Self». MATLIT: Materialidades De La Literatura 11 (1):11-27. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_11-1_2.

Número

Vol. 11 Núm. 1 (2024): Entrelaçando vozes: criar e partilhar literatura eletrónica

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Secção Temática | Thematic Section

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